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noun

Consumer n.

One who, or that which, consumes; as, the consumer of food.

(Econ.) The person or organization that uses some item of commerce or service in its own acitities, as opposed to reselling the item or including it as part of another item for resale; called also the end user.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Consumer" Quotes from Famous Books

... the daylight Consumer would pay the tax, supposing it were ever paid at all Financial opposition to tyranny is apt to be unanimous Great battles often leave the world where they found it Great transactions of a reign are sometimes paltry things The faithful servant ...

— Quotations From John Lothrop Motley • David Widger

... inasmuch as it secures regular supplies of commodities of the best kind at fair and reasonable prices. On the other hand, its opponents contend that Trusts are injurious to the real interests of the public, as small companies cannot compete with them, and without healthy competition the consumer always suffers. Where experts differ it were perhaps wiser for me not to express an opinion lest I should show no more wisdom than the boy who argued that lobsters were black and not red because he had often seen them ...

— America Through the Spectacles of an Oriental Diplomat • Wu Tingfang

... trimmest, neatest, slickest little mill you ever saw. Lord! but she was painted red and white and gold-leaf, three brass bands on her stack, solid nickel trimming, all the latest improvements, corrugated fire-box, high pressure smoke consumer and sand-jet—jest made a purpose for specials, and pay-car. But if she ain't got herself coupled onto a long-fire-boxed ten-wheeler, with a big lap and a Joy gear, you can put me down for a clinker. Yes, sir; the baby is a heart-breaker on dress-parade, and the ten-wheeler is a whale on ...

— Danger Signals • John A. Hill and Jasper Ewing Brady

... not enter. Insistently the pocket comes first. And if the British consumer of aniline dyes can obtain his raw material more advantageously from the German than from the British producer, he will probably be ready to do so for the greater gain of more economic production ...

— The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife • Edward Carpenter

... vain that the friends of protection appealed to the fact, that the duties levied on foreign goods did not necessarily enhance their cost to the consumer; that the competition among home manufacturers, and between them and foreigners, had greatly reduced the price of nearly every article properly protected; that foreign manufacturers always had, and always would advance their prices according to our dependence upon them; that domestic ...

— Cotton is King and The Pro-Slavery Arguments • Various

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